Word: calley
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...only following orders, sir," says the soldier in The Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley, a new pop record. (This might be as big as Harper Valley PTA, says its distributor.) How can a soldier be punished for doing as he was told...
...handful of draft boards across the country have resigned since the Calley conviction, refusing to induct men who might, like Calley, be ordered to kill and later find themselves charged with murder. One board in central Massachusetts has announced that it will still perform most of its clerical duties but will not induct...
Immediately after Calley was convicted, several veterans of World War II and Korea turned themselves in to local jails, insisting that they should be locked up. They claimed to have committed war crimes that made them at least as guilty as Lt. Calley...
...Calley walked from the courtroom after being convicted, the crowd outside applauded loudly...
Nixon, meanwhile, sensing a political tunnel wave, announced that he would personally review Calley's case. The prosecutor in the Calley trial then wrote an eloquent rebuke to Nixon, criticizing his incursion into the military murder case appeal procedure. Now Democratic Party politicians are gloating over Nixon's blunder, since he will eventually (before the elections?) have to overrule either the army trial officers or his middle American constituency...